In a nutshell, this Marxist regime and the Marxist occupying the White House, by signing another executive order last week, and a bill signed earlier this year, have given themselves the power to detain anyone, including U.S. citizens, indefinitely, without due cause or trial, Constitution be damned! It also allows for the regime to take over almost all aspects of our economy!
Most of us here were certain that Obamacare, which, if allowed to be fully implemented, would take over 1/6 of our economy, would never be enough to satisfy the Marxist swine salivating to control our lives at every turn, and that it was only the beginning of the power grab for our rights. Here’s the proof that most of us were, in fact, correct.
This order allowing for the indefinite detention of any U.S. citizen, without being charged or tried, clearly violates the following Constitutional amendments:
* 4th amendment which guards against searches, arrests, and seizures of property without a specific warrant or a “probable cause”.
* 5th amendment which forbids punishment without due process of law.
* 6th amendment, which guarantees a speedy public trial for criminal offenses. It also guarantees the accused a right to know the charges against him.
We all know the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, which, for over 225 years has protected the rights of liberty and freedom to all individuals, was nothing but a pesky little barrier to be breached by this Marxist POS occupying the White House, his regime, and the rest of the Marxist dimocrats in the House and Senate.
I urge you all to read the following articles, the first one written by the very liberal professor of public interest law at George Washington University, Jonathon Turley, whom I’m certain you’ve seen on TV arguing for just about every liberal position this side of North Korea.
The second one that was written by Edwin Black, in, believe it or not, the uber-liberal Huffington Post (broken clock theory applies here).
They’re about the inherent danger of the two bills signed by the Marxist POS White House occupier that was, naturally, completely ignored by the propaganda arm/cheerleader squad of the dimocrat party, the mainstream media.
And to be honest, I haven’t read squat about this unprecedented and unconstitutional assault on the liberty of all U.S. citizens in any of the conservative media either.
Guess they’re too busy talking about friggin’ Etch-A-Sketches to worry about what the hell is actually important!!!
Nor, for that matter, have any of our Presidential candidates even mentioned this unbridled assault on our liberty and freedom. Again, it’s the Etch-A-Sketches that are important, people!
As is usual, Turley’s article was not published here, but rather overseas in the ultra liberal Socialist Guardian newspaper in London.
Think the mainstream Obama-loving media would have ignored this if it had been the Bush administration that did this? Me neither. They’d be outraged and howling like wolves (and rightfully so) in the New York Slimes and on MSLSD about how that eeeevil George W. Bush is trampling on our rights.
That’s why when it comes to ANY libturd complaint, grievance, or outrage, we all need to ignore the hypocritical imbeciles.
Always remember, it’s not what was done, it was who did it.
As long as the “right” kind of people (libturds) do it, they’re like “it’s okay folks, nothing to see here, move right along”. That’s why I detest these leftist America-hating scumbags more each day.
The NDAA’s historic assault on American liberty
By Jonathan Turley
President Barack Obama rang in the New Year by signing the NDAA law with its provision allowing him to indefinitely detain citizens. It was a symbolic moment, to say the least. With Americans distracted with drinking and celebrating, Obama signed one of the greatest rollbacks of civil liberties in the history of our country … and citizens partied in unwitting bliss into the New Year.
Ironically, in addition to breaking his promise not to sign the law, Obama broke his promise on signing statements and attached a statement that he really does not want to detain citizens indefinitely (see the text of the statement here).
Obama insisted that he signed the bill simply to keep funding for the troops. It was a continuation of the dishonest treatment of the issue by the White House since the law first came to light. As discussed earlier, the White House told citizens that the president would not sign the NDAA because of the provision. That spin ended after sponsor Senator Carl Levin (Democrat, Michigan) went to the floor and disclosed that it was the White House and insisted that there be no exception for citizens in the indefinite detention provision.
The latest claim is even more insulting. You do not “support our troops” by denying the principles for which they are fighting. They are not fighting to consolidate authoritarian powers in the president. The “American way of life” is defined by our constitution and specifically the bill of rights. Moreover, the insistence that you do not intend to use authoritarian powers does not alter the fact that you just signed an authoritarian measure. It is not the use but the right to use such powers that defines authoritarian systems.
The almost complete failure of the mainstream media to cover this issue is shocking. Many reporters have bought into the spin of the Obama administration as they did the spin over torture by the Bush administration. Even today, reporters refuse to call waterboarding torture despite the long line of cases and experts defining waterboarding as torture for decades.
On the NDAA, reporters continue to mouth the claim that this law only codifies what is already the law. That is not true. The administration has fought any challenges to indefinite detention to prevent a true court review. Moreover, most experts agree that such indefinite detention of citizens violates the constitution.
There are also those who continue the longstanding effort to excuse Obama’s horrific record on civil liberties by blaming either others or the times. One successful myth is that there is an exception for citizens. The White House is saying that changes to the law made it unnecessary to veto the legislation. That spin is ridiculous. The changes were the inclusion of some meaningless rhetoric after key amendments protecting citizens were defeated. The provision merely states that nothing in the provisions could be construed to alter Americans’ legal rights. Since the Senate clearly views citizens as not just subject to indefinite detention but even to execution without a trial, the change offers nothing but rhetoric to hide the harsh reality.
The Obama administration and Democratic members are in full spin mode – using language designed to obscure the authority given to the military. The exemption for American citizens from the mandatory detention requirement (section 1032) is the screening language for the next section, 1031, which offers no exemption for American citizens from the authorisation to use the military to indefinitely detain people without charge or trial.
Obama could have refused to sign the bill and the Congress would have rushed to fund the troops. Instead, as confirmed by Senator Levin, the White House conducted a misinformation campaign to secure this power while portraying the president as some type of reluctant absolute ruler, or, as Obama maintains, a reluctant president with dictatorial powers.
Most Democratic members joined their Republican colleagues in voting for this un-American measure. Some Montana citizens are moving to force the removal of these members who, they insist, betrayed their oaths of office and their constituents. Most citizens, however, are continuing to treat the matter as a distraction from the holiday cheer.
For civil libertarians, the NDAA is our Mayan moment: 2012 is when the nation embraced authoritarian powers with little more than a pause between rounds of drinks.
Obama Prepares for War Footing
By Edwin Black
Last Friday, March 16, President Barack Obama may have quietly placed the United States on a war preparedness footing, perhaps in anticipation of an outbreak of war between Israel, the West, and Iran. A newly-propounded Executive Order, titled “National Defense Resources Preparedness,” renews and updates the president’s power to take control of all civil energy supplies, including oil and natural gas, control and restrict all civil transportation, which is almost 97 percent dependent upon oil; and even provides the option to re-enable a draft in order to achieve both the military and non-military demands of the country, according to a simple reading of the text. The Executive Order was published on the White House website.
The timing of the Order — with little fanfare — could not be explained. Opinions among the very first bloggers on the purpose of the unexpected Executive Order run the gamut from the confused to the absurd. None focus on the obvious sudden need for such a pronouncement: oil and its potential for imminent interruption.
If Iran was struck by Israel or the West, or if Iran thought it might be struck, the Tehran regime has promised it would block the Strait of Hormuz, which would obstruct some 40 percent of the world’s seaborne oil, some twenty percent of the global supply, and about 20 percent of America’s daily needs. Moreover, Tehran has promised military retaliation against any nation it feels has harmed it. The United States is at the top of the list.
Blocking the Strait of Hormuz would create an international and economic calamity of unprecedented severity. Here are the crude realities. America uses approximately 19 to 20 million barrels of oil per day, almost half of which is imported. If we lose just 1 million barrels per day, or suffer the type of damage sustained from Hurricane Katrina, our government will open the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), which offers a mere six- to eight-week supply of unrefined crude oil. If we lose 1.5 million barrels per day, or approximately 7.5 percent, we will ask our allies in the 28-member International Energy Agency to open their SPRs and otherwise assist. If we lose 2 million barrels per day, or 10 percent, for a protracted period, government crisis monitors say the chaos will be so catastrophic, they cannot even model it. One government oil crisis source recently told me: “We cannot put a price tag on it. If it happens, just cash in your 401(k).”
